S03-3 Staying active together in sports - the importance of and how to promote the emotional domain of Physical literacy

Abstract Background Club-based sports participation through adolescent years is associated with improved health and wellbeing and is therefore considered and important part of health promotion in Scandinavian welfare states. Participation rates are very high among children whereas dropout rates increase during the adolescent years. Many studies have shown how intentions to continue in sport is dependent on autonomous motivation, which is dependent on basic psychological needs satisfaction and hence needs support in the social environment of the team. It has also been shown that the coach has central influence on social environment of the team. The SATS study is a prospective study on the influence of coach-created social climate on young club-sport participants’ psychological needs satisfaction, motivation and continuation the following season. Methods Participants were 6400 adolescent members of leisure time club-organized Basketball, Handball, Football and Gymnastics in Denmark. In the baseline-season coach-created climate was measured with the EDMCQ-C, Basic Psychological needs satisfaction and frustration was measured with PNSS-S and behavioral regulation (motivation) was measured with BRSQ. The participants’ continuation or dropout the next season was measured with a short SMS based questionnaire the next season. Results Task oriented, social supportive and autonomy supportive coach behaviors were associated with higher basic needs satisfaction, autonomous motivation and continuation the next season across sports, ages, levels and genders. Ego-oriented and controlling coaching behaviors were associated with needs frustration, controlled motivation and dropout. Conclusions Empowering Coaching behavior is important for young sports participants’ wellbeing and continuation in sport.


Background
Club-based sports participation through adolescent years is associated with improved health and wellbeing and is therefore considered and important part of health promotion in Scandinavian welfare states. Participation rates are very high among children whereas dropout rates increase during the adolescent years. Many studies have shown how intentions to continue in sport is dependent on autonomous motivation, which is dependent on basic psychological needs satisfaction and hence needs support in the social environment of the team. It has also been shown that the coach has central influence on social environment of the team. The SATS study is a prospective study on the influence of coach-created social climate on young club-sport participants' psychological needs satisfaction, motivation and continuation the following season.

Methods
Participants were 6400 adolescent members of leisure time club-organized Basketball, Handball, Football and Gymnastics in Denmark. In the baseline-season coach-created climate was measured with the EDMCQ-C, Basic Psychological needs satisfaction and frustration was measured with PNSS-S and behavioral regulation (motivation) was measured with BRSQ. The participants' continuation or dropout the next season was measured with a short SMS based questionnaire the next season.

Results
Task oriented, social supportive and autonomy supportive coach behaviors were associated with higher basic needs satisfaction, autonomous motivation and continuation the next season across sports, ages, levels and genders. Egooriented and controlling coaching behaviors were associated with needs frustration, controlled motivation and dropout.

Conclusions
Empowering Coaching behavior is important for young sports participants' wellbeing and continuation in sport. Keywords: Empowering coaching, motivation, physical literacy, sport participation Background A considerable number of Danish children and adolescents do not currently meet the national physical activity (PA) recommendations. In recent years, the concept of physical literacy (PL), has gained popularity worldwide, and it is considered as a proximal measure for lifelong PA. However, only a few interventions targeting PL exist on a global scale. In Denmark, the development of theoretically driven and evidencebased PL interventions that aim to increase PL among children and adolescents has not begun. Yet, a promising, theory-based, and internationally tested intervention, the Youth Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH), has proven to be effective on children and adolescents' PA levels and motor skills. This presentation introduces the Promoting Pupils' Physical Literacy (3PL) project which aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of the Y-PATH intervention in a Danish context among pupils 9-11 years of age.

Methods and Results
The hypothesis is that a revised and adapted 3PL intervention protocol that aims to increase pupils' PL is ready for effectiveness testing by the end of this project. Two public schools will be recruited and randomly assigned to intervention or control condition following a waitlist design. The primary outcomes include the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention. The feasibility of the practicality and the recruitment process will be assessed within a document log administered by research assistants. The acceptability, including demand and experiences, and the intervention implementation degree will be evaluated by short bimonthly questionnaires to teachers, and interviews with pupils, ii10 European Journal of Public Health, Volume 32 Supplement 2, 2022